Movie: Border (1997)Star Cast: Sunny Deol, Akshay Khanna, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Pooja Bhatt, Rakhee, TabuSynopsis/Plot: The film opens before the actual declaration of the indo pakistan war of 1971 as arMajor Kuldeep Singh nd airforce Anand 'Andy' Bajwa meet on a courier flight and speak about the
possibility of opening of the Western front in light of the East
Pakistan conflict. Kuldip takes up command of a coy of the 23rd punjab regiment
arguing the light defense being assigned to the military post of
Longewala. He meets his second in command Lt Dharamvir Bhan (who happens
to be the son of a 1965 Indo-Pakistani-War veteran who was killed
during that war) and the Coy NCO Subedar Mathura Das. The company moves
to the remote outpost in the deserts of Rajasthan and begins to expand
the rudimentary BSF post and does a recce of the area up to the
international border with Pakistan. They meet the post's BSF commandant
Bhairon Singh, a deeply patriotic man who expresses his love for the
desert.

During a night patrol, Kuldip, Lt Dharamvir and Bhairon Singh come
across a suspicious bunch of locals who turn out to be insurgents having
informed the identities of the company to the Pakistani military. The
trio get into a brief firefight killing all but one of the insurgents
when Dharamvir hesitates to shoot one of the insurgents, as he had never
killed anyone. Kuldip severely derides him and shoots the insurgent
himself, prompting Dharamvir to vomit. A badly shaken Dharamvir is
comforted by Bhairon Singh and the two reminisce about their personal
lives. Dharamvir recounts how he met his fiancee Kamla, a lively young
girl from his native village who he had fallen for and how he got his
mobilization orders on the day of his engagement to Kamla. Bhairon Singh
recounts his wedding night, his first night with his bride, when he was
called back to post and how he bids a tearful goodbye to his beautiful
wife Phool Kanwar.

The unit is joined by the charismatic Subedar Ratan Singh, a man of
insatiable appetite and wit, with 2 106mm jeep-mounted RCL guns to serve
as an anti-armour unit. The company wireless operator picks up a spy
transmitting from a nearby area and Dharamvir sets out to investigate.
He ambushes the spy and kills the man, bringing the body back to the
post to prove that he has overcome his fear of killing another person.
The unit settles down to wait for the enemy as they keep track of the
developing events on the radio. The Indian army starts moving forces to
nearby locations preparing to attack if Pakistan tries to open the
Western front and this gives hope of soon-to-come action for the men
tired of the long wait in the hot and desolate desert. Subedar Mathura
Das is granted leave to attend to his wife (who is ailing with cancer)
and children. The men receive letters with news from back home and talk
among of themselves of the people they left back home to serve their
country.

On the evening of 3 December 1971, the unit receives word that the
enemy has attacked with Pakistan Air Force planes bombing multiple
Indian airbases and that war has been officially declared by the Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Dharamvir and five of his soldiers are sent to patrol the border within
a section while Bhairon Singh and his men are assigned to clear out the
nearby villages. As Bhairon Singh is briefing the villagers on
evacuation, Pakistani artillery batteries start shelling Indian
positions and villages. Kuldip joins in the evacuation as heavy shelling
occurs leveling a whole village. In the meanwhile Dharamvir and his
patrol spot Pakistani tanks and infantry crossing the border into India.
He reports back the enemy movement to Kuldip and is ordered to secretly
follow the tanks without engaging them. Kuldip radios for air support
and speaks to Wing Com Bajwa, who tells him that there can be no air
support as his base has only Hunter-Fighters, which cannot fly at night.
In despair, Kuldip radios his CO and explains his untenable position.
He is given the option of either holding his post or retreat, he decides
to stay and so does his entire company.

As the unit digs in to face the enemy assault, Mathura returns and
apologizes for deserting the men of his company. Kuldip thanks him for
returning in time and assigns him to the RCL units, promising Mathura
that he will return to his family when the war is over. The post is
surrounded by massed enemy armour and infantry while the shelling from
across the border continues relentlessly. Fortunately, Kuldip manages to
get the company to bury anti-tank mines around the post to prevent the
tanks from barging in. Upon seeing one of his tanks being blown by one
of the mines, the Pakistani commander Ghulam Dastagir hurls expletives
at Kuldip addressing him by name and tells him to retreat or die. Kuldip
lashes back and swears and insults Dastagir, addressing him by name and
insulting him. The tanks open fire on the post and the battle begins
with Kuldip ordering Mathura to destroy some more tanks. Though the tide
of the battle is turning good for the Indians at first, it wasn't until
Mathura's RCL is hit by a tank shell, wounding him and prompting
Bhairon Singh to extract him from the burning jeep. Mathura is fatally
wounded when he goes to extract a recoil spring for Bhairon Singh's MMG
and dies in Bhairon's arms. Subedar sacrifices himself to throw away an
exploding tank shell to prevent several of his men from being killed.
Another tank targets Bhairon's machine gun nest and destroys it,
wounding Bhairon. He charges the same tank and destroys it with an
anti-tank mine, killing himself and the Pakistani soldiers inside the
tank. Dharamvir breaks through the enemy cordon and returns to post, but
his entire patrol is wiped out in the process. The Pakistani commander
orders a bayonet charge on the Indian position but the attack is beaten
back by the Indians with Dharamvir being severely wounded. The Indians
capture a Pakistani private who reveals that the Pakistani column plans
to capture Jaiselmer by morning, Jodhpur by afternoon, and reach Delhi
by night.

As dawn nears, the Pakistanis launch a last-ditch attempt to overrun
Longewala post with their massed assault of tanks and infantry, ignoring
the danger of the anti-tank mines that are still buried. Kuldip gathers
the remaining of his depleted force and prepares for a suicide
counter-attack on the advancing enemy. The Indians engage in vicious
hand-to-hand fighting with Kuldip jumping from tank to tank lobbing
grenades down the turret hatches. Dawn has broken as the fight heats up
and Bajwa's squadron finally takes off from the Jaisalmer Base to aid
Kudip's besieged coy. During the fight, Kuldip falls on the ground into
the sights of a Pakistani tank but before the tank can open fire to kill
him, it is destroyed by cannon fire from an
jet as Bajwa's squadron arrives and the tide of the battle turns. The
Pakistani attack breaks as tank after tank is hit by the planes till
they decide to beat a retreat back across the border. The battle ends as
a soldier tries to tell Dharamvir about the victory and realises that
he has died. The unit is relieved as Indian tanks and artillery arrive
and more air-strikes beat back enemy reinforcements. The end credits
roll as the Indians launch their counter-offensive and news of the
deceased reach their homes, much to their families' discomfort. The 2001
film, gaijin, which was also directed by JP Dutta claims that Pakistan
and India are no different most people say that the director was just
trying to right some wrongs. Source: Rajshri

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